Women script medals History
She dedicates her medal to all Indians. Discus-thrower Krishna Poonia, the first Indian woman to claim CWG gold in athletics and only the second from this country after Milkha Singh in Cardiff 1958 to rule the podium in a track-and-field discipline, belongs to that rare breed called jinx-breaker. That Harwant Kaur (silver) and Seema Antil (bronze) flanked her as the Tricolour and crowd rose on a floodlit evening brought to the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium this rarest of rare sights: a 1-2-3 by the Bharatiya nari in international competition… on a day when gold eluded India’s male athletes. Monday had numerous success stories. And yet, there was disappointment both for this festival of sport and the host nation. If what till now had held promise of being the ‘Clean Games’ was sullied by Nigerian 100m winner Oludamola Osayemi failing a drug test – the first such instance in Delhi 2010 -- and being provisionally suspended, India’s boxers, of whom more was expected, faltered in the semis. Ama...